Job Openings at Newmont Corporation

About The Job

About This Role

• To conduct electrical maintenance, deployment, troubleshooting, replacement, repair, and testing of electrical equipment and systems on drills, shovels and support equipment, according to electrical codes, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) specifications and safety standards to ensure equipment availability and optimal mining operations and production.

In This Role You Will
Electrical Maintenance:

• Perform preventive maintenance routines and inspections.
• Generate a work order before the remedial or repair work is carried out.
• Raise a job card for work to be carried out, if any problems are identified.
• Attend to items on the maintenance planning schedule, as and when required.
• Accomplish work objectives by determining own work schedule, coordinate with support services.

Troubleshoot technical and / or operational problems:

• Perform installations, maintenance and repair activities, in accordance with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) specifications.
• Perform routine maintenance on all electrical equipment, and ensure effective functioning, including but not limited to maintenance of drills, shovel and support equipment.
• Perform a variety of other maintenance tasks, such as electrical preventive maintenance.
• Confirm that tag-outs / lock-outs are in place when disconnecting / connecting and removing electrical components.

Attend to equipment breakdowns:

• Provide information with regards to maintaining sufficient spare availability and stock levels.
• Assist specialists in making more complex repairs.
• Work within established procedures and operating manuals, as set out by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs) and best practice.
• Check that daily and rotational quality targets are achieved, including First Stop After Preventive Maintenance (FSAPM), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repairs (MTTR).

Troubleshooting:

• Carry out daily inspections and record all findings.
• Check all malfunctioned electrical systems, and conduct root cause analysis in order to diagnose whether to repair or replace.
• Analyze specified problems and issues to find the best technical solutions within Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) specifications and in accordance with local codes.
• Strive to reduce downtime and minimize costs.

Reporting:

• Maintain records of maintenance and repair work.
• Produce daily reports indicating the jobs for the day and submit the report to the Supervisor.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Deliver on prescribed outcomes and / or provide support services, by applying Newmont’s Health, Safety and Environment systems, policies and protocols.
• Inspect the equipment to check and identify any electrical and basic mechanical risks.
• Attend all safety meetings.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Electrical Engineering Technician certificate.
• Electrical Trade training, apprenticeship.
• MINCOM certified as Inspection Engineer is an advantage.

Additional Knowledge:

• Advance knowledge of mechanical maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Advance knowledge and experience of maintaining drills, shovels and support equipment.
• Knowledge of the work management process.
• Knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Knowledge of Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) / Enterprise Resource Package (ERP).

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ electrical maintenance experience in a mining equipment maintenance, preferably repairing and maintaining drills, shovels and support equipment.

Technical Skills:

• Communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to identify problems and to report by using technical names of equipment parts.
• Ability to develop / maintain electrical distribution, generation and transmission systems and networks.
• Ability to correctly read power meters and record the readings accurately.
• Ability to maintain, commission equipment in accordance with legislation, regulations and international standards.
• Ability to manage the quality of operations in accordance with the quality standards of the organisation and international best practice.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Reliable.
• Safety conscious.
• Detail focused.
• Technically inclined.
• Takes initiative.
• Results driven.
• Proactive.
• Resilient.
• Team player.

Working Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to work in confined spaces and will be exposed to extreme vibration.
• Work Environment: The employee is required to operate in a safety-critical environment. The incumbent will occasionally lift heavy materials and / or operate heavy machinery.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask according to working conditions.

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About The Job

About This Role

• To provide safe, environmentally compliant and cost-effective maintenance welding, line boring, machining and fabrication services, to contribute to optimum equipment availability and achievement of production objectives.

In This Role You Will:

• Fabrication, Line Boring and Maintenance Welding
• Work from engineering drawings, sketches, other specifications as well as verbal instructions.
• Select appropriate welding equipment such as gas torches, portable electric arcs and semi-automatic and automatic machines and select appropriate electrode for material.
• Set up and adjust equipment and controls to regulate gas pressure, voltage or amperage.
• Work within strict quality standards and tolerance measures to support the function in terms of quality assurance.
• Repair and overhaul heavy mobile mining equipment both in field and workshop based using a portable line boring machine.
• Undertake welding repairs to facilitate line boring activities.
• Use measuring gear to precisely measure pins and bores.
• Set up and operate line boring equipment and radial drill press.
• Make and sharpen cutting tools.
• Conduct Non Destructive Testing (NDT) of haul truck beds, shovel buckets, track frames for internal cracks and prepare report for reliability engineer.
• Use drill press machine to drill and tap handling holes on die-sets and other hole forming operations.
• Supervise and train new employee's on how to run weld machinery, line boring equipment and also drill and press machinery.
• Use workshop press to perform pressing activities safely (bushing installation and removal, straightening bent metal plates, etc.).
• Work with minimal supervision.
• Use SAP to raise and close work orders, entering time confirmations.

Reporting:

• Produce daily reports indicating the jobs for the day and submit the report to the Supervisor.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation:
• Accomplish work objectives by determining own work schedule, coordinate with support services and assign short-term tasks to Mechanics / Electricians or the Supervisor as necessary.
• Complete all works as prescribed in the works order.
• Close all works orders on completion of tasks.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Accept personal responsibility for health and safety.
• Manage and apply safe systems of work without supervision and provide technical guidance when required.
• Ensure all safety paperwork is in place before performing any tasks.
• Perform housekeeping after completing the job.
• Attend safety meetings.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Completion of trade certification, apprenticeship or another recognized welder training program.

Additional Knowledge:

• Knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Knowledge of the work management process.
• Knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Advance knowledge of welding techniques and standards and related safety standards.
• Operate forklift/telehandler to load and transport tooling and other equipment’s for job set up.
• Holder of valid Ghanaian driver’s license CE.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in maintenance welding, machining and fabrication, repairing and maintaining industrial or mining equipment and auxiliaries.

Technical Skills:

• Problem-solving skills.
• Communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot, check tolerances and use precision measuring tools.
• Ability to identify problems and to report by using technical names of equipment / parts.
• Ability to use Oxy / acetylene, 9’’ & 5” grinding machine, Arc welding machine set, thermal lance, welding shield and other specialized welding equipment.
• Ability to understand the procedure of installation.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings or blueprints.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Reliable.
• Safety conscious.
• Detail focused.
• Technically inclined.
• Takes initiative.
• Results driven.
• Proactive.
• Resilience.
• Team player.

Working Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to work in confined spaces and will be exposed to extreme vibration.
• Work environment: The employee is required to operate in a safety-critical environment. The employee is frequently exposed to noise more than 85 decibels, and to fumes, high temperature hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces etc. The incumbent will regularly lift heavy materials and / or operate heavy machinery.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask.

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About The Job

About This Role

• To provide administrative support to the General administration/Support function teams by effectively managing and performing a wide variety of administrative duties.

In This Role You Will
General Administration:

• Liaise with the Support function teams,’ and vendors in assisting in events organizing (i.e. VIP visits, Regulators, Inter-mine Safety Competitions etc.).
• Arrange meetings and conferences; including preparing agendas and minutes for same.
• Collates and follow up on routine task assignment for internal and external meetings.
• Arrange travel and accommodation request for the support function teams/contractors and government officials when needed
• Develop and maintain filing and information systems.
• Assist National Service Personnel (NSP) to handle reception/ front desk personnel duties.
• Assist in managing site calendar. Calendar for functional leads and external request register.
• Monitor with contractors and ensure timely submission of invoices, complete and track cheque requests, IT requests and expense reports, warehouse and purchase requisitions, ‘smoko’ items, visit authorization forms, maintenance of office stock and supplies etc.
• Assist with budget management, generate monthly cost report using SAP and submit monthly accruals for expenses under support functions cost centers
• Stand in for Executive Assistant of her duties when she/he is offsite.
• Consolidate Monthly/Quarterly/Annual copying, binding of Statutory Reports and correspondences for external government agencies.
• Assist support function teams with logistics on audit and inspections and input all corrective actions and compliance to work policies in Cintellate.
• Assist in coordinating forums, meetings and Traditional Authorities and Chiefs Stakeholder Engagement.

Organizational Communication:

• Provide administrative support in maintaining internal communications channels including EIBs and Prospector.
• Provide administrative support in maintaining the professional outlook and Newmont Brand.
• Liaise with Communication department to ensure fact sheets and pull-ups are maintained at the front desk
• Check corporate giveaways are adequate and sufficient.
• Provide information about the establishment, such as location of departments or offices, employees within the organization, or services provided.
• Collect, sort, distribute, or prepare mail, and courier deliveries.
• Ensure the sorting and distribution of all documents e.g. pay slips, pension statements to designated employees

Working Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit at a desk for extended periods, climb stairs, walk and stand.
• Work Environment: The noise level in the office work environment is minimal.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):
Associate degree in Business, or combination of certificates in a related field.
Additional Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the organizational structure and management team.
• Knowledge of vendors and suppliers applicable to the department.
• Knowledge of internal administration and communication processes, procedures and systems.
• Knowledge of the organization’s invoicing and requisition processes, procedures and systems.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role, preferably in a gold mining environment.

Technical Skills:

• Communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Computer literacy skills - MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Information monitoring and management skills.
• Planning, organizing and prioritizing skills.
• Administrative skills.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Reliable and independent.
• Detail focused.
• Show initiative, be results driven and pro-active.
• Resilient.
• Confidentiality.
• Diplomacy.
• Team player.
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative, team-based and multi-national / cultural environment.
• Customer focused.
• Results driven
• Safety conscious

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About The Job

About This Role

• To conduct mechanical maintenance, deployment, troubleshooting, replacement, repair, and testing of equipment on drills, shovels and support equipment, according to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) specifications and safety standards, to ensure equipment availability and optimal mining operations and production.

In This Role You Will:

• Mechanical Maintenance
• Perform preventive maintenance routines and inspections.
• Generate a work order before the remedial or repair work is carried out.
• Raise a job card for work to be carried out, if any problems are identified.
• Accomplish work objectives by determining own work schedule, coordinate with support services.
• Attend to items on the maintenance planning schedule, as and when required.
• Perform installations, maintenance and repair activities, in accordance with OEM specifications.
• Troubleshoot technical and / or operational problems.
• Perform routine maintenance on all mechanical equipment and ensure effective functioning, including but not limited to maintenance of drills, shovels and support equipment.
• Perform a variety of other maintenance tasks, such as breakdowns and preventative maintenance.
• Disassemble and assemble various major components for repair works.
• Ensure that all lock-out / tag-outs are completed, before any work is carried out.
• Provide information in terms of sufficient spare availability and stock levels.
• Assist specialists in making more complex repairs.
• Work within established procedures and operating manuals, as set out by the OEMs and best practices.
• Check that daily and rotational quality targets are achieved, including First Stop After PM (FSAPM), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repairs (MTTR).
• Conduct daily inspection and lube services to the machines
• Collect oil samples from mining fleet using best practices to minimize contamination.

Trouble shooting:

• Carry out inspection on all mechanical equipment daily and record all findings from the inspection.
• Check all malfunctioned machinery and equipment, and conduct root cause analysis to diagnose whether to repair or replace.
• Analyze specified problems and issues to find the best technical solutions within OEM specifications.
• Strive to reduce downtime and minimize costs.

Reporting:

• Maintain records of maintenance and repair work.
• Produce daily reports indicating the jobs for the day and submit the report to the Supervisor.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Deliver own prescribed outcomes and / or provide support services, by applying Newmont’s Health, Safety and Environment systems, policies and protocols.
• Inspect the equipment to check and identify any mechanical and basic electrical risks.
• Attend all safety meetings.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist
Formal Qualification (including Professional Registrations):

• Mechanical Engineering Technician certificate.
• Mechanic Trade training, apprenticeship.
• MINCOM certified as Inspection Engineer is an advantage.

Additional Knowledge:

• Advanced knowledge of mechanical maintenance principles and industry standards.
• Advanced knowledge and experience of maintaining Drills. Shovels and support equipment.
• Knowledge of the work management process.
• Knowledge of planning and scheduling.
• Knowledge of CMMS/ERP.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ mechanical maintenance experience in a mining plant / process environment, preferably repairing and maintaining drill, shovels and support equipment.

Technical Skills:

• Communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to read and understand technical documentation such as technical instructions, test procedures and technical manuals.
• Ability to identify problems and to report by using technical names of equipment parts.
• Ability to utilize the mechanical tools to install, maintain and repair equipment and power plant.
• Ability to manage the quality of operations in accordance with the quality standards of the organisation and international best practice.

Behavioural Attributes:

• Reliable and independent.
• Safety conscious.
• Detail focused.
• Technically inclined.
• Takes initiative.
• Results driven.
• Proactive.
• Resilience.
• Team player.

Working Conditions:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to work in confined spaces and will be exposed to extreme vibration.
• Work environment: The employee is required to operate in a safety-critical environment. The employee is frequently exposed to noise more than 85 decibels, and to fumes, high temperature hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces etc. The incumbent will occasionally lift heavy materials and / or operate heavy machinery.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Work requires mandatory PPE such as helmet, goggles, high visible clothing, safety harness, ear plugs and dust mask according to working conditions.